Genre: New Adult Romance
The Analysis:
I have two books by this author on my TBR list. This is actually the second one that I’ve read, but I didn’t make the connection right away. Whiskey by Kandi Steiner, let’s book review it.
Heres the Blurb:
It’s crazy how fast the buzz comes back after you’ve been sober for so long.
Whiskey stood there, on my doorstep, just like he had one year before. Except this time, there was no rain, no anger, no wedding invitation — it was just us.
It was just him — the old friend, the easy smile, the twisted solace wrapped in a glittering bottle.
It was just me — the alcoholic, pretending like I didn’t want to taste him, realizing too quickly that months of being clean didn’t make me crave him any less.
But we can’t start here.
No, to tell this story right, we need to go back.
Back to the beginning.
Back to the very first drop.
This is my love letter to Whiskey. I only hope he reads it.
I love the cover. The bottle of alcohol combined with her intense expression of contented love promise angst. As well as a little interracial romance. Although the black and white made it a little hard to tell. Comment below what you think?
Now The Story:
Book Info:
Pages: 380
Author: Kandi Steiner
Available: On Amazon
Throughout my reading, I waffled between 3 and 4 stars. What tipped the scales was the fact that if I did a pro and cons list there would probably be more things that I disliked then liked. So I’m going with 3 and I’m just going to slowly back away.
Hmm, where to begin? The first goal of a writer is to convince the reader that the reasons the main character’s are not together
This novel couldn’t do that. I won’t call either character immature. However, they both made several mistakes that were unnecessary and weren’t enough to prove that the conflict keeping them apart was enough. I mean there was nothing keeping them apart, but indecision. And the indecision wasn’t backed up by anything. He wasn’t even an alcoholic. The old adage they could have been together umpteen chapters ago if they had only x,y,z rings true for this story. And it shouldn’t.
That’s the plot. Now please allow me a moment to nitpick. The whiskey references didn’t work for me because in my head they were for a man and not a college boy. Well written, but I’m waiting for the husky man this applies to lol. Whiskey isn’t just a color its a feeling. And nothing about that jock screamed motorcycle rides in the rain, husky whispers of goodnight, and a bad boy playin’ the field that got you in your feels. That good college boy was not Whiskey. That was somebody future husband.
This book also covers a livespan. And I really wish they would have skipped high school. I’m reading this and falling asleep. Which leads me to my final point, it was really boring until the bestie shows up the second time.
Story At A Glance:
Recommendation: No, but try What He Doesn’t Know instead. No book review, but I did love it much better than this one. Now that man should have been called Whiskey, okay.
The Ratings:
Book Cover Appeal:
🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓
Story & Narration:
🍓🍓
Romance:
🍓🍓🍓
Sex Scenes:N
🍓🍓
P.S. The dedication makes me wonder what else is true about this story besides the whiskey lol.
